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GNU xorriso. By Thomas Schmitt
Derived from and supported by libburnia-project.org, published via:
http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.4.1.tar.gz
Provided under GPL version 3 or later. No warranty.
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xorriso is a program which copies file objects from POSIX compliant
filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows
session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the management
information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to
optical media or to filesystem objects.
Vice versa xorriso is able to restore file objects from ISO 9660 filesystems.
A special property of xorriso is that it needs neither an external ISO 9660
formatter program nor an external burn program for CD or DVD but rather
incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org .
Currently it is fully supported on GNU/Linux with kernels >= 2.4,
on FreeBSD with ATAPI/CAM support enabled in the kernel, see atapicam(4),
on OpenSolaris (tested with kernel 5.11),
on NetBSD (tested with 6.1.2 and 6.1.3).
On other X/Open compliant systems there will only be POSIX i/o with disk
file objects, but no direct MMC operation on CD/DVD/BD drives.
By using this software you agree to the disclaimer at the end of this text:
"... without even the implied warranty ..."
Compilation, First Glimpse, Installation
The most simple way to get xorriso from source code is the GNU xorriso tarball.
Prerequisites:
The tarball contains everything that is needed except the following system
components:
libc, libpthread
plus on Solaris: libvolmgt
plus on FreeBSD: libiconv, libcam, IDE and SATA drives need atapicam
Optional at compile time are:
libreadline and the readline-dev headers, or libedit and its header,
make dialog mode more convenient.
zlib and zlib-devel allow zisofs compression.
on GNU/Linux: libacl and libacl-devel allow getting and setting ACLs.
If they were present at compile time, then the optional libraries have to
be present at runtime, too.
Obtain xorriso-1.4.1.tar.gz, take it to a directory of your choice and do:
tar xzf xorriso-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd xorriso-1.4.1
Within that directory execute:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
This will produce a binary named
./xorriso/xorriso
If you want xorriso to report a "Build timestamp" with its option -version :
make buildstamped
You may strip the binary to reduce it in size
strip ./xorriso/xorriso
You may copy or move it to a directory where it can be found by the shell,
or you may execute xorriso at the place where it was built,
or you may execute as superuser:
make install
For general concepts, options and usage examples see
info xorriso
info xorrisofs
info xorrecord
or
man 1 xorriso
man 1 xorrisofs
man 1 xorrecord
You may get a first glimpse by e.g.
info ./xorriso/xorriso.info
man ./xorriso/xorriso.1
The installation creates several alias links pointing to the xorriso binary:
xorrisofs starts xorriso with -as mkisofs emulation already enabled
xorrecord starts xorriso with -as cdrecord emulation already enabled
osirrox starts with -osirrox image-to-disk copying already enabled
By default xorriso will depend on libreadline if the library and its
development header files are present at compile time. If not, then it will
try to depend on libedit and its header file.
Both conditional dependencies can be avoided by running
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-libreadline
make clean ; make
Never omit the "make clean" command after switching enabling of libreadline.
If you want to explictely allow only the use of libedit, then do
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-libreadline --enable-libedit
Other deliberate dependency reduction options of ./configure are:
--disable-libacl avoid use of ACL functions like acl_to_text()
--disable-xattr avoid use of xattr functions like listxattr() on Linux
resp. extattr_list_file() on FreeBSD
--disable-zlib avoid use of zlib functions like compress2()
this also avoids the use of libjte and option -jigdo.
xorriso brings own system adapters which allow burning optical media on
GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NetBSD.
Alternatively it can use libcdio-0.83 or later for sending commands to
optical drives:
--enable-libcdio
xorriso allows to use external processes as file content filters. This is
a potential security risk which may be avoided by ./configure option
--disable-external-filters
By default the filter feature is disabled if effective user id and real
user id differ. This ban can be lifted by
--enable-external-filters-setuid
Sometimes xorriso will yield better write performance on GNU/Linux if 64 KB are
transmitted in each write operation rather than 32 KB. See option -dvd_obs .
64k can be made default at configure time by:
--enable-dvd-obs-64k
For xorriso -as cdrecord emulation only:
In some situations GNU/Linux may deliver a better write performance to drives
if the track input is read with O_DIRECT (see man 2 open). The included libburn
and the cdrecord emulation of xorriso can be told to use this peculiar read
mode by:
--enable-track-src-odirect
Linux only:
libburn tries to avoid a collision with udev's drive examination by waiting
0.1 seconds before opening the device file for a longer time, after udev
might have been alarmed by drive scanning activities.
The waiting time can be set at ./configure time with microsecond granularity.
E.g. 2 seconds:
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DLibburn_udev_wait_useC=2000000"
./configure ...options...
Waiting can be disabled by zero waiting time:
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DLibburn_udev_wait_useC=0"
Alternatively, libburn can try to be nice by opening the device file,
closing it immediately, waiting, and only then opening it for real:
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DLibburn_udev_extra_open_cyclE -DLibburn_udev_wait_useC=500000"
xorriso under control of a (GUI) frontend process
The dialog mode allows frontend programs to connect via pipes to the standard
input and output of xorriso. Several commands of xorriso help with receiving
and parsing of reply messages.
As a proof of concept, there is the Tcl/Tk script xorriso-tcltk which can
be launched by this shell command:
xorriso-tcltk
Or in the xorriso build directory, without installation of xorriso:
xorriso/xorriso -launch_frontend frontend/xorriso-tcltk --stdio --
In the running GUI, click with the rightmost mouse button on any GUI element
to get its particular help text. The "Help" button at the upper right corner
gives a short introduction and instructions for some common use cases.
See also file frontend/README-tcltk.
See its Tcl code for getting an idea how this gets achieved.
The script is part of the tarball and gets installed by make install. If a
xorriso distro package does not install it, you may get it directly from
http://libburnia-project.org/export/head/libisoburn/trunk/frontend/xorriso-tcltk
Further there is the C program frontend/frontend_pipes_xorriso.c which
forks a xorriso process and shows the same communication gestures as
xorriso-tcltk.
In particular it connects to xorriso via two pipes, sends commands, waits
for all replies of a command, picks info out of the xorriso message sieve,
and parses reply message lines into words.
The bash script frontend/sh_on_named_pipes.sh forks a xorriso process and
operates it via two named pipes which it creates.
Drives and Disk File Objects
The user of libisoburn applications needs rw-permission for the CD/DVD/BD
drives which shall be used, even if only reading is intended.
A list of rw-accessible drives can be obtained by
xorriso -devices
CD devices which offer not enough permission are invisible to normal users.
The superuser should be able to see any usable drive and then set the
permissions as needed.
On Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, rw-permissions are needed.
On Solaris, the privilege "sys_devices" and r-permission are needed.
The output of xorriso -devices might look like
0 -dev '/dev/sr0' rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH-S203B'
1 -dev '/dev/hda' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8162B'
On Linux, full and insecure enabling of both for everybody would look like
chmod a+rw /dev/sr0 /dev/hda
This is equivalent to the traditional setup chmod a+x,u+s cdrecord.
On FreeBSD, device permissions are to be set in /etc/devfs.rules.
On Solaris, pfexec privileges may be restricted to "basic,sys_devices".
On NetBSD, rw-permission may be granted by chmod a+rw /dev/rcd?d.
See below "System Dependent Drive Permission Examples".
I strongly discourage to run xorriso with setuid root or via sudo !
It is not checked for the necessary degree of hacker safety.
Better consider to grant the necessary permissions to group "floppy"
and to add users to it.
A possible source of problems are hald or other automounters.
If you can spot a process "hald-addon-storage" with the address of
your desired drive, then consider to kill it.
A similar process "udisks-daemon: polling ..." can be seen on newer Linuxes.
On Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2 amd64 there is
/lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules
where one can remove all CD drives ("sr*") from the list of automountable
devices:
KERNEL=="sd*|hd*|mmcblk*|mspblk*", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY}="0"
# KERNEL=="sd*|hd*|sr*|mmcblk*|mspblk*", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY}="0"
Copying the recognition criterion from
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
one can prevent automounting a single drive, too:
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-2:0:0:0", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY}:="1"
If you cannot get rid of the automounter, try whether it helps to always load
the drive tray manually before starting a write run of xorriso. Wait until the
drive light is off and the mounted media appears.
Then try to unmount the mounted media before a write run.
Besides true optical drives, xorriso can also address disk files as input or
output drives. By default paths to files under /dev are accepted only if the
device represents a real optical drive. Other device files may be addressed
by prepending "stdio:" to the path.
Like:
xorriso -dev stdio:/dev/sdb ...more arguments...
This rule may be changed by xorriso option -drive_class.
Prefix "mmc:" causes a path to be accepted only if it is a real optical drive
which is accessible by generic SCSI/MMC commands.
Testing
For automated and manual tests of xorriso's functionality see file
releng/README
Result comparison with self produced ISO images
We are quite sure that libisofs produces accurate representations of the disk
files. This opinion is founded on a lot of test burns and checks by a little
test program which compares files from the mounted image with the orignals
on disk. It uses the normal POSIX filesystem calls, i.e. no libburnia stuff.
This program is not installed systemwide but stays in the installation
directory of the xorriso tarball as test/compare_file . Usually it is
run as -exec payload of a find command. It demands at least three arguments:
The path of the first file to compare, the prefix1 to be cut off from path
and the prefix2 which gets prepended afterwards to obtain the path of the
second file to compare.
As further argument there can be -no_ctime which suppresses the comparison
of ctime date stamps.
The exit value is 0 if no difference was detected, non-0 else.
Example: After
xorriso ... -pathspecs on -add /=/original/dir -- -commit_eject all
mount /media/dvd
cd test
compare tree /media/dvd with tree /original/dir :
find /original/dir -exec ./compare_file '{}' /original/dir /media/dvd ';' \
| less
and vice versa:
find /media/dvd -exec ./compare_file '{}' /media/dvd /original/dir ';' \
| less
File Formats
Sector Maps
Sector maps describe the valid and invalid blocks on a media or a disk copy of
a media. xorriso creates and reads these file with its option -check_media.
The file begins with 32 bytes of cleartext of which the last one is a
newline character. The first 25 say "xorriso sector bitmap v2 ", the
remaining six characters give the size of the info text as decimal number.
This number of bytes follows the first 32 and will not be interpreted
by xorriso. They are rather to inform a human reader about the media type
and its track layout.
After the info text there are two 4 byte signed integers, most significant
byte first. The first one, N, gives the number of bits in the following bitmap
and the second number S gives the number of 2 KiB blocks governed by a single
bit in the map. Then come the bits in form of 8-bit bytes.
Data block M is covered by bit B=M/S in the map, bit number B is stored in
byte B/8 as bit B%8. A valid readable data block has its bit set to 1.
Checksum Tags
Checksum tags are data blocks inside an ISO 9660 image which do not belong to
any file but rather tell the MD5 of a certain range of data blocks.
The superblock checksum tag is written after the ECMA-119 volume descriptors.
The tree checksum tag is written after the ECMA-119 directory entries.
The session checksum tag is written after all payload including the checksum
array. (Then follows padding.)
The tags are single lines of printable text, padded by 0 bytes. They have
the following format:
Tag_id pos=# range_start=# range_size=# [session_start|next=#] md5=# self=#\n
Parameters md5= and self= are 32 digit hex, the others are decimal numbers.
Tag_id distinguishes the following tag types
"libisofs_rlsb32_checksum_tag_v1" Relocated 64 kB superblock tag
"libisofs_sb_checksum_tag_v1" Superblock tag
"libisofs_tree_checksum_tag_v1" Directory tree tag
"libisofs_checksum_tag_v1" Session end tag
A relocated superblock may appear at LBA 0 of an image which was produced for
being stored in a disk file or on overwriteable media (e.g. DVD+RW, BD-RE).
xorriso records the first session at LBA 32. A follow-up session
begins at the next block address which is divisible by 32 and higher than the
address of the previous session's end tag. Normally no session starts after the
address given by relocated superblock parameter session_start=.
Session oriented media like CD-R[W], DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R will have no relocated
superblock but rather bear a table-of-content on media level.
A tag is valid if pos= tells its own block address and self= tells its own MD5
up to the last hex digit of md5=. range_start= tells the first block that is
covered by md5=, range_size= tells the number of blocks covered by md5=.
Relocated superblocks tell the block address of their session by session_start=.
Superblock and tree tag tell the block address of the next tag by next=.
The newline character at the end is mandatory.
libisoburn
xorriso is based on libisofs which does ISO 9660 filesystem aspects and on
libburn which does the input and output aspects. Parts of this foundation
are accessed via libisoburn, which is closely related to xorriso.
libisoburn provides several services:
- Encapsulation of coordination between libisofs and libburn.
- Emulation of ISO 9660 multi-session on overwriteable media
or random access files.
- Implementation of the xorriso API.
The sourcecode of all three libraries is included in the xorriso standalone
tarball. It is compiled with xorriso and linked statically.
But you may as well get and install releases of libburn and libisofs, in order
to be able to install a release of libisoburn which produces libisoburn.so.1
and a matching dynamically linked xorriso binary.
This binary is very lean but depends on properly installed libraries of
suitable revision.
Dynamic library and compile time header requirements for libisoburn-1.4.0 :
- libburn.so.4 , version libburn-1.4.0 or higher
- libisofs.so.6 , version libisofs-1.4.0 or higher
libisoburn and xorriso will not start with libraries which are older than their
headers seen at compile time. So compile in the oldest possible installation
setup unless you have reason to enforce a newer bug fix level.
GNU xorriso has less runtime dependencies and can be moved more freely.
System Dependent Drive Permission Examples
Accessing the optical drives requires privileges which usually are granted
only to the superuser. GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and NetBSD offer quite
different approaches for avoiding the need for unrestricted privileges.
First check whether some friendly system setting already allows you to
access the drives as normal user:
xorriso -devices
Those drives of which you see address and type strings are already usable.
If there remain drives invisible which the superuser can see by the same
command, then the following examples might help:
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On all systems:
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Add the authorized users of CD drives to group "floppy" in /etc/group.
If missing: create this group.
Changes to /etc/group often only affect new login sessions. So log out and in
before making the first tests.
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On GNU/Linux:
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Allow rw-access to the drives
chgrp floppy /dev/sr0 /dev/sr1
chmod g+rw /dev/sr0 /dev/sr1
It might be necessary to perform chgrp and chmod after each reboot or to
edit distro dependent device configuration files for permanent settings.
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On FreeBSD:
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Edit /etc/devfs.rules and make sure to have these lines
[localrules=10]
add path 'acd*' mode 0664 group floppy
add path 'cd*' mode 0664 group floppy
add path 'pass*' mode 0664 group floppy
add path 'xpt*' mode 0664 group floppy
[localrules=5]
add path 'pass*' mode 0664 group floppy
add path 'cd*' mode 0664 group floppy
add path 'xpt*' mode 0664 group floppy
add path 'acd*' mode 0664 group floppy
Edit /etc/rc.conf and add the following line if missing
devfs_system_ruleset="localrules"
This gets into effect by reboot or by command
/etc/rc.d/devfs start
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On Solaris:
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Run xorriso by
pfexec xorriso ...arguments...
The following settings will make pfexec keep original UID and EUID and prevent
most superuser powers. Be aware that you still can manipulate all device files
if you have the file permissions for that.
Full root privileges for xorriso can then be acquired only by command su.
Edit /etc/security/exec_attr and add this line to the other "Media Backup"
lines:
Media Backup:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/bin/xorriso:privs=basic,sys_devices
Edit /etc/user_attr and add profile "Media Backup" to the user's line:
thomas::::profiles=Media Backup,Primary Administrator;roles=root
See also man privileges, man exec_attr, man user_attr.
Then allow the group r-access to the drives
pfexec chgrp floppy /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2
pfexec chmod g+r /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2
The last two commands have to be executed after each boot. I do not know
the relevant device configuration files yet.
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On NetBSD:
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Allow rw-access to the drives
chgrp floppy /dev/rcd[01]d
chmod g+rw /dev/rcd[01]d
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU xorriso is feature-wise equivalent to the dynamic compilation of
libburnia libraries and libburnia program xorriso.
It restricts itself to a technical form where the legal commitments of the
libburnia project and the legal intentions of FSF match completely.
Libburnia project is committed to provide support for this copy in the same
way as for its own software releases. It is further committed to keep its
own licenses open for obtaining future copies under GPLv2+.
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libburnia program xorriso is based on and sub project of:
libburnia-project.org
By Mario Danic , libburn, libisofs
Vreixo Formoso , libisofs, libisoburn
Thomas Schmitt , libburn, libisofs,
libisoburn, xorriso
Copyright (C) 2006-2015 Mario Danic, Vreixo Formoso, Thomas Schmitt.
libburnia-project.org is inspired by and in libburn still containing parts
of old
Libburn. By Derek Foreman and
Ben Jansens
Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens
GNU xorriso contains libjte out of source package jigit >= 1.17
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2004-2011 Steve McIntyre
2010-2011 George Danchev, Thomas Schmitt
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This text itself is
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2015 Thomas Schmitt
and is freely distributable.
It shall only be modified in sync with the technical properties of xorriso.
If you make use of the license to derive modified versions of xorriso
then you are entitled to modify this text under that same license.